Talk:Manhattan Valley

Great expansion
Really top-notch, and surprising to see so much written so quickly. Normally changes like this take months. One issue -- the article as it now stands downplays the area's reputation as crack central from the 1980s. It would be better to disclose that, the article smacks a little of boosterism otherwise.Uucp 20:27, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

how can one write a history of manhattan valley and not include the Lions Brewery. My gosh. i am happy to see ascension church where i attended grammar school. i will be back to write something on the Lions brewqery. They were the people who built ascension church. joe 21:29, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Lion Brewery
That was totally excessive; I have moved it to its own page. Uucp 01:44, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Two Manhattan Valleys?
It seems as if two natural valleys have both been granted the name Manhattan Valley in the borough:


 * one within the neighborhood (of the same name) within 96-110 Streets between Central Park West and Broadway (covered in this article)
 * one within Manhattanville

Should this warrant a mention in the article? A couple of articles referring to the latter link here; specifically, Manhattan Valley viaduct and Riverside Drive Viaduct.

-- DannyDaWriter (talk) 08:16, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

The oldest use of the name for this area might be the founding of the Manhattan Valley Development Corporation in 1968, and it was popularized starting about 1975 by the Columbia Tenants' Union's newspaper 'Heights & 'Valley News (punctuation, sic). Supposedly the name referred to the area around Manhattan Avenue, but as such I believe it was a neologism based on either creativity or ignorance. I expect research of earlier publications would find the name applied only to the valley near 125th St and the Hudson River, the location once also of Manhattan Street (125th St where it is out of the grid), Manhattan College, Manhattan station (Hudson River Railroad), and the settlement called Manhattanville. To make this point in the article, I think we need a few citations demonstrating the older use. JoeBrennan (talk) 16:05, 6 April 2014 (UTC)